A Night With Him

chapter 10

"Irene" Harold called, bringing her back to reality.

"Hu..h?" She stuttered.

"I'm sorry..i was a little bit lost " She said.

"It's fine, what happened earlier...the lady called Carrle is Ivory's mother" Harold paused.

"Ohh" Irene blinked, now getting everything.

"But we divorced five years ago" Harold continued.

"I'm so sorry about that " Irene said and Harold shrugged.

It has been five years and he got over her already.

"I don't allow her in my house except on her visitation rights which is twice a month for 24 hours. She comes every second week of the month to check on Ivory and please whenever she's around ,do not hesitate to call me immediately cause i might be at work and i don't leave her alone with my daughter." Harold said.

"Okay" Irene nodded.

Ivory shifted a bit in her sleep and the blanket fell off her shoulder. Both irene and Harold quickly made to draw the blanket back at the same time but Irene reached it first.

She pulled it properly over Ivory and then realized she had beaten Harold to it.

She smiled to herself but Harold caught her.

"Why are you smiling?" He asked.

"I beat you to it" She suddenly laughed.

"Damn!

What did she just did?" She thought.

She's only this playful whenever she's around her stepmum and Damien.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to laugh" She quickly apologized.

"It's fine" Harold smiled.

He had loved the way she laughed playfully.

This will be the first time he'll see her laugh and she looked more beautiful at it.

"You dont have to be sorry cause you laughed, you are free to laugh anytime you please" Harold said and she nodded.

"I need to get in my room now and start preparing for work tomorrow, you can go meet Nola so she'll enlighten you more about the happenings around here but please you need to check on Ivory every fifteen minutes"

"Okay,i will do just that" Irene said.

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"Do you care for anything?" Nola asked Irene as she entered the kitchen.

"No, ivory is asleep and Mr Harold said i can come spend some time with you" Irene said..

"Ohh,you're welcome" Nola smiled, motioning her to sit opposite her.

They both sat on the breakfast bar in the kitchen.

"So, you are?" Nola asked.

"I'm Irene, Ivory's nanny"

"Okay, I'm Nola, the cook. Nice to meet you"

"Nice to meet you too" Irene said.

"I'm gonna introduce you to the other workers later and i'll show you around later" Nola said.

"Okay" Irene smiled,glad at the woman's friendliness.

"You're welcome here and i know you're really gonna enjoy your stay here. Mr Harold is a very nice person, he treats every of his worker like his family" Nola said.

"That's so obvious and Ivory is also a nice kid, though her rules are not very nice" Irene said and Nola laughed.

"Ivory can be eccentric at times. But, once she really likes you, she'll be the one to break the rules she made for herself" Nola said.

"Really?" Irene asked.

"Yes"

"You must have been working for Mr Harold for long" Irene said.

"Yes, I've worked here for sixteen years, i was 24 then and i had just given birth,i had no job and my husband died the day i gave birth to Allysia, my daughter " Nola said.

"I'm so sorry about that Nola" Irene said sadly.

"It's fine. So, Harold was just Eleven then and what made me met him was because i found his favourite lost puppy at my doorstep. I returned it to the address i found on the puppy's chain and Harold who loved the puppy so much thanked me profusely. We became close and he loved playing with my daughter. He learned of my condition and begged his parents to take me in with my daughter. Harold has been benevolent right from time, he really love helping people that are in need. He's the only child of his parents and they did everything he wanted. His parents took me in with my daughter and they took care of Allysia like she was theirs,anyone would think she was Harold younger sister,she attended the best school in the city and wore the best clothes. Right now Allysia is with Harold's parents in Spain. She comes here every summer" Nola said.

"Wow!" Irene exclaimed.

"So then, i do assist their cook in the kitchen and suddenly she left. I volunteered to be the cook and i clearly told them not to pay me but they didn't heed, they paid me every month and still took care of my daughter. I watched the tiny Harold grow into the huge man he is today" Nola smiled.

"That's interesting" Irene smiled too.

"Oh..my, i need to go check on Ivory" Irene said glancing at the wall clock.

She stood up and quickly walked out of the kitchen.

Nola smiled, she like the lady and this is actually the first time she would tell someone this story.

Ivory's past nannies were always interested in checking out the whole house,rather than sit and talk with her.

Most of them do ask her what Harold likes and dislikes,they concentrate more on Harold that ivory whom they were here for .

But this lady is different.

Anyone can tell she genuinely cares for Ivory even if she just resumed today.

Nola had watched her from the kitchen while Ivory was still in her arms and she had seen how Irene badly wanted to touch Ivory's hair but she didn't. Ivory was asleep and wouldn't have known if anyone touched her hair but Irene didn't use that advantage to disregard her rules. She kept strictly to the rules.

Nola had been impressed and happy they finally had a different nanny.

"She's not awake yet" Irene said, walking back into the kitchen.

"Ohh" Nola smiled.

Irene took her seat opposite Nola.

She found the woman interesting,she's sharing so much with her even if she just resumed today.

"Can i ask you something?" Irene asked.

"What?"

"Does Mr Harold pay his workers close to one million dollars a week?" Irene asked.

"One million dollars a week?" Nola nearly screamed.